In a totally unrelated Facebook post, I started talking about Pink Martini.  I found the following YouTube video, which I don’t want to lose.

Is it any wonder we loved Portland, Oregon so much. A fifteen minute ride from our house, and we could see performances like this. Pink Martini being a homegrown favorite in Portland, we had many chances to see them in many different venues.

WikiPedia has an interesting biography of Thomas Lauderdale. We first heard him at a theater club performance at the Portland Museum of Art in 1995.